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Adaptability, Openness and Curiosity
If Education 4.0 is about preparing students for the workplace of the future, that's g...
Laws to help security and incident respo...
Last week I was invited to be a member of a panel at the UN Internet Governance Forum on h...
GDPR: What's your justification?
[Updated Oct.19 to add EDPB on Necessary for Contract and ICO on Consent][Updated Sep.18 t...
Remote Proctoring and Invigilation
[with thanks to a former university Head of Examinations for input and discussion]Recent y...
IP Addresses, Privacy and the GDPR
It's well-known that the General Data Protection Regulation says that IP addresses sho...
GDPR: Attendance Monitoring
A question recently arose about monitoring students' attendance at lectures and tutorials, and how this fitted into data protection law. Since the main purpose of such monitoring seems to be to identify and assist students who don&...
Consultation: Assessing the impact of (r...
Our university and college buildings already contain a surprising number of sensors that could collect information about those who occupy them. At a recent event I spotted at least half a dozen different systems in a normal lecture roo...
Free Text and Data Protection
Collections of free text – whether in database fields, documents or email archives – present a challenge both for operations and under data protection law. They may contain personal data but it's hard to find: whether y...
AI and Ethics: GDPR and beyond
The EU High-Level Expert Group's (HLEG) draft Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI con...
What's the data protection difference be...
[UPDATE] a slightly revised version of this post formed our response to the ICO consultati...
How Should Education use AI?
In looking at the many ethical concerns that have been expressed about the use of Artifici...
Janet East Midlands Service Report March...
Janet East Midlands Service Report March 2020...
Janet West Midlands Service Report March...
Janet West Midlands Service Report March 2020...
GDPR: Recording Phone Calls
Most of us are familiar with the recorded messages at the start of phone calls that warn &...
GDPR: Backups, Archives and the Right to...
I was recently asked how the GDPR's Right to Erasure would affect backups and archives...
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JiscCommunity has been this blog's home for eight years, but I'm now moving over to JiscInform. That has many nice features, notably that it works really well on...
Jisc has been providing expert, trusted advice on digital technology in the education sector for more than 30 years. We know that technology and data have the ability...
[with thanks to a former university Head of Examinations for input and discussion]
Recent years, and weeks, have seen a move away from the traditional...
I've been reading a fascinating paper by Julia Slupska – "War, Health and...
[Notes:
- This isn't legal advice, but I hope it will reassure anyone considering supporting the...
[Notes:
- This isn't legal advice, but I hope it will reassure anyone considering supporting the...
The EU High-Level Expert Group's (HLEG) draft Ethics Guidelines for...
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network
